Join us for a special Jazz History Month concert featuring jazz music, stories and poetry. A professional sextet will perform classic jazz music from Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Roy Hargrove and many others. Dr. Joanne Gabbin, founding director (emeritus) of the Furious Flower Poetry Center, and Dr. Edward Scott, will present poetry and stories that tie into the music with historical context and artistic illumination. Musicians include tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson (Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Christian McBride, poet Nikki Giovanni, et al.); Charlottesville trumpeter, John D’Earth; Harrisonburg’s Marlon Foster (drums) and Neal Perrine (bass); Lynchburg’s Lew Taylor on piano, and Harrisonburg trombonist, Robert Mott.
This 90-minute, non-religious public performance is presented FREE of charge and will be held in the auditorium of Eastern Mennonite School, 801 Parkwood Drive, Harrisonburg (near EMU) beginning at 4 p.m.
Funding and support for this event provided by Arts Council of the Valley, Eastern Mennonite School and RobertMottDesigns.com